Bastian Berbner

In Search of Common Ground: Inspiring True Stories of Overcoming Hate in a Divided World (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Sommer, Carolin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An essential book for this momenthere are inspiring stories of people who have built meaningful relationships despite initial deep-seated prejudice, revealing how we can mend our fiercest divides

Is there nothing we can do? This is the question that inspired award-winning journalist Bastian Berbner to embark on this book as he surveyed the political arenas in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere across Europe, compelled by what he describes as something akin to political fear. What he found in the course of his reporting are people who, despite significant differences in their worldviews and ideas, were able to trust, listen to, and be open with one another.

In Search of Common Ground takes us around the world: to Arizona, where a former neo-Nazi befriends his Black parole officer; to Germany, where an older couple dread the arrival of their new Roma neighborsbut are moved upon meeting them to offer help, becoming their friends and champions; to Ireland, where we see one friendship change the world when a gay-rights activist overturns a conservative mailman's homophobiaand together, they help sway public opinion to legalize gay marriage.

Berbner's intensively reported and compelling accounts are interwoven with expert insight from Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, psychologist Peter Coleman of Columbia University, and others. This uplifting book vividly shows that we can overcome prejudice and find common ground.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Experiment
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781615198955
• Artikelnr.: 64257262

Autorenporträt

Bastian Berbner has reported portions of this book on This American Life; other outlets that have already featured this book include David Byrne's newsletter "Reasons to Be Cheerful" and The Guardian. A reporter for the German newspaper Die Zeit, Berbner hosts the podcast 180 Grad ("180 Degrees"), where he first developed many of the stories in this book. He has been honored with some of the most prestigious journalism awards in Germany, where he lives.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1. The Others: How encounters with strangers can save society
2. The Hell: When the power of contact fails
3. The Competition: Why media sometimes make it worse
4. The Returners: How a smile becomes a weapon
5. The Lot: When the coincidence stabilizes democracy
6. The Neighbors: How the choice of where to live determines our lives
7. The Community: How contact can lead to war
8. The Letters: Where contact has pacified an entire society
Afterword
Notes